America 1869: A Doppelganger Every Day

Li Changsheng had been implementing his global clone plan from the very beginning.

However, Li Changsheng's initial plan for global clones was to send clones to different countries and then summon one clone to complete the task.

However, after the events of the Qing Dynasty, he changed his strategy.

If the goal is simply to create an avatar and travel to a country as an ordinary person, then it would be far too difficult for Li Changsheng's avatar to develop.

Therefore, Li Changsheng's global clone plan has been modified to some extent.

That means other clones will help.

For example, in the island nation, the five-tailed chicken clone was a white clone who helped increase its fame first, allowing it to make money, gain fame, and live a good life.

Similarly, Li Changsheng created miracles among the Mapuche people in order to elevate the status of his clone.

Having a certain status allows for a better start.

The clones in Europe and America earned their first pot of gold by relying on Li Changsheng's own pen patent and the clone's zipper patent.

They are responsible for helping with patent applications, maintaining patents, and are also the legal users of the patents.

By paying a certain patent fee, they can make enough money using these two patents.

Therefore, Li Changsheng's clones in Europe and America now basically own their own companies or factories.

In the process of utilizing their own products and cooperating with other countries, they summon new clones and arrange for these clones to enter new countries.

This cycle allows Li Changsheng's clones to have a good start.

As for what would happen after the clones were created, Li Changsheng didn't care much.

Unless it's something extremely important, he won't allow anyone to contact him.

These clones each possess memories of their past lives, so it's not actually difficult for them to thrive.

Normally, these clones wouldn't think about their original self unless there were special circumstances.

However, this time it happened to me, which was clearly because the situation was far too serious.

After merging with the clone's memories, Li Changsheng now knew why the clone was looking for him.

Li Changsheng's clone was mainly responsible for immigration from the Qing Empire.

Its role was to incite people to migrate within the Qing Empire, rather than to manage the migration ships.

The reason this clone sent him here was to check on the situation of the immigrant ship.

A migrant ship was packed with thousands of people.

Especially inside the cabin, people were basically packed together.

Putting everything else aside, even taking care of personal hygiene can be a bit of a hassle.

And most importantly, these were basically a group of refugees who couldn't survive, and they didn't bring much with them.

Eating along the way will be another problem.

If he were to go to America like this, Li Changsheng thought that surviving two-thirds of the time would be considered quite good.

At the same time, once they get there, everyone will be in debt for a huge sum of money.

Li Changsheng had been learning about the situation of the Chinese Laborers Association during this period. Many of the Chinese laborers in the association were in debt.

Most of the money they owe is to the owners of these immigrant ships.

Of course, there were originally some local human traffickers, or some scoundrels among the Chinese community who were also creditors. However, since what these people did was illegal to begin with, and with the fact that Chinese people could obtain American citizenship, these issues were easily resolved.

These Chinese only need to bear a portion of the cost; they don't have to bear the high interest on the rest of the money they were supposed to pay.

Li Changsheng had initially thought that, because of his actions, these immigrant ships would treat the Chinese laborers better.

Unexpectedly, the captains of these immigrant ships became even more outrageous.

He looked at the other clone beside him and said.

"Are all ships transporting Chinese laborers like this?"

"While not entirely true, it's pretty much the same. It's just that this ship is a bit exaggerated; the other ships don't have much fewer people than this one."

Li Changsheng fell silent for a moment.

If all immigration ships are like this, then it's understandable why some Chinese people don't want to immigrate.

Because many immigrants die en route, and most die at sea, with no one to seek justice for them.

Nobody wants to die unless absolutely necessary.

He looked at his clone and said.

"In the Jiangzhe region, who calls the shots?"

"What we need to do is to immigrate more Chinese to America, so that Chinese people can also have a place in America."

"If the safety of immigrants cannot be guaranteed, then it is just empty talk to get more Chinese into America."

"The transportation problem must be solved."

After thinking for a moment, the clone spoke.

"It should be Zeng Guofan. I heard he was the Governor-General of Liangjiang, but I don't know if that's true."

Since even his clone didn't know, Li Changsheng could only follow his clone to inquire.

However, before making any inquiries, Li Changsheng found the captain of the immigrant ship.

The captain was initially unwilling to talk to Li Changsheng, but after hearing Li Changsheng speak fluent English, he agreed to meet him.

Li Changsheng took out the money from his clone and bought five or six thousand large pumpkins.

He then gave the captain a thousand taels of silver.

"These pumpkins are for these Chinese people. Consider this a thank-you gift of one thousand taels of silver."

"If you can successfully and safely deliver all these people to San Francisco, Consul Alexander at the San Francisco consulate will pay you $2000."

"If one person dies in the process, the amount will be reduced by $100; if more than 20 people die, then the money will be lost."

"Moreover, once this group of people arrives in San Francisco, they will be taken over by the Chinese Workers Association."

"I hope you won't cause any trouble then."

"They will write down all the money they owe you, and we will arrange jobs for them so that they can pay it back in the shortest possible time."

"After that, they become citizens of the United States, and if many people die in the process, then perhaps some of them will remember them."

"You wouldn't want to be the target of a bunch of people's attention, would you?"

The captain initially didn't take it seriously, but he fell silent at the end.

After a long silence, he finally reached out and took the silver.

"Chinese people, you have won."

"I won't let the other $2000 go."

Li Changsheng nodded.

"I hope you keep your word. You should know that the wave of Chinese laborers emigrating has just begun, and we are responsible for connecting with these emigration ships."

"It's not just the Jiangsu and Zhejiang region; our people are in charge of many ports in the north and south as well."

"If you cannot guarantee the safety of us Chinese, then our cooperation will have to end."

The captain, who had initially harbored some ulterior motives, immediately abandoned them and sent someone down to purchase a batch of supplies before setting sail again.

Spending a few hundred dollars to get $2000 back is worthwhile.

After resolving the issue of the ship's laborers, Li Changsheng finally confirmed that the Governor-General of Liangjiang was none other than Zeng Guofan.

"It seems that we will have to rely entirely on Zeng Guofan to solve the transportation problem."